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I CAN'T WAIT – FROM THE WEEK:   NBC has just announced what sounds like the most depressing Law & Order series yet: Law & Order: Hate Crimes.  Deadline reports that the network has ordered 13 episodes of this new show, which will be based on New York's actual Hate Crimes Task Force. The characters from Hate Crimes will first be introduced during an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, making this a spinoff of a spinoff.  Hate Crimes is co-created by Warren Leight, the former showrunner of SVU. He'll work alongside Dick Wolf, the creator of the entire Law & Order franchise. Per Deadline, Wolf said that he wants to "depict what’s really going on in our cities and shine a light on the wide-ranging victims and show that justice can prevail."  I can just imagine the pomposity at the first awards ceremony.  And, of course, every respectable actor or actress will want to play one of the victims, and to be interviewed to tell "my personal story."  Quick, my pills!

HEARTENING NEWS – FROM BLOOMBERG:   (Bloomberg) -- The number of people facing hunger in the U.S. declined last year to the lowest since 2007 as unemployment fell, a key data point as Congress debates changes to food-aid programs as part of farm legislation.  About 40 million people were "food insecure" in 2017, meaning that at some point in the year their ability to obtain adequate food was in question, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in an annual study released Wednesday. That represents a 2.8 percent decline from 2016. Hunger was most prevalent in New Mexico, with 17.9 percent of households affected, while Hawaii’s rate of 7.4 percent was the lowest in the nation.  The number is still too high, but Trump's economy is making a difference.

MELANIA ACES IT – FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT:  Far-left actress Issa Rae told Glamour magazine she would cancel her HBO show if beautiful first lady Melania Trump liked it.  In an interview with Glamour, the HBO star, 33, recalled former first lady Michelle Obama raving about the Season 2 finale back in 20…Then came the thought: What if the current first lady Melania Trump enjoyed the show as much?
“If Melania [Trump] said that to me, I would be like, ‘Well, I guess it’s canceled. We’re not making this show. It’s not ours anymore,’” she said.  On Wednesday lovely Melania Trump called her bluff.
The First Lady’s spokesperson tweeted out that Melania loves Issa’s show.  Back to you, Issa.  Another Hollywood phony, like the ones who said they'd leave the United States if Trump were elected. 

September 5, 2018